Anchorage, AK, USA
At approximately 5:50 am I saw 4 bright lights over the air force base. The lights hovered in the shape of a diamond or kite for just a
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-27
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-anchorage-ak-2017-b3c662
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Anchorage, AK shows up 149 times across the archive.
- 21 reports came from Alaska in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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